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Quotes About United States

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.
~ Richard Engel
the economic pain gripping the United States will not actually be the fault of immigrants — or China, Muslims, environmentalists, or even terrorists. Nor is the essential problem Big Government: As we have seen, the desperate effort to inflate government spending and power is more of an effect than a cause of the nation's predicament.
~ Richard Heinberg
The torpedo won Jutland. It nearly won the war for the Germans. But in the end it defeated them by drawing in the United States on the Allied side.
~ Richard Hough
One might well wonder how much more unanimously opposed to terror the Muslim world might have become, but for the course the United States and its allies took in the wake of 9/11. At a time when even in Tehran there were demonstrations of solidarity with America, the Bush and Blair coalition lashed out with its own violent rejoinder, a drive that would culminate in the tragically misbegotten Iraq invasion of 2003. Its
~ Karen Armstrong
The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!
~ Joe Biden
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
~ Nguyen Van Thieu
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
~ Warren Farrell
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.
~ Rick Mercer
You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.
~ Barack Obama
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.
~ David Blankenhorn
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
~ Jay Carney
We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base.
~ Donald Trump
My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.
~ Robin Lim
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
~ Antonio Carlos Jobim
If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
~ Barack Obama
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
~ Mick Jagger
If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.
~ Nelson Mandela
The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."
~ Tony Benn
Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.
~ Gustav Stresemann